HMS Phaeton (1883)

	Phaeton in harbour at Esquimalt, 1898
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Phaeton
Ordered	1880
Builder	Napier, Glasgow
Laid down	14 June 1880
Launched	27 February 1883
Commissioned	20 April 1886
Decommissioned	28 April 1903 (as sea-going warship)
Out of service	1913
Renamed	TS Indefatigable 1913
Reinstated	1941 as Carrick II
Fate	Sold for breaking up 1947
General characteristics
Class and type	Leander-class protected cruiser
Displacement	4,300 tons (4,400 tonnes) load.
Tons burthen	3,750 tons (BOM)
Length	300 ft (91 m) pp; 315 ft (96 m) oa;
Beam	46 ft (14 m)
Draught	20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) aft, 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) forward; with 950 tons (970 tonnes) of coal and complete with stores and provisions.;
Propulsion	Sails and screw. Two shafts. Two cylinder horizontal direct acting compound engines, 12 cylindrical boilers, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) designed; 17–18 knots (31–33 km/h; 20–21 mph) after funnels raised;
Range	11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).; 725 tons coal normal, 1000 tons maximum = c. 6,000 nmi at economical speed.;
Complement	(1885): 275
Armament	(1885):; 10 × 6-inch breech loading guns; 8 1-inch Nordenfelt guns; 2 5-barrel and 2 2-barrel 0.45-in machineguns; 4 above water torpedo dischargers.;
Armour	1.5 in (40 mm) steel armoured deck (with sloped sides) over 165 ft.; 1.5 in (40 mm) gun shields.;
Notes	Carried 2 second class torpedo boats.; Carried 7 pdr and 9 pdr boat guns and field guns.;

HMS Phaeton was a second class cruiser of the Leander class which served with the Royal Navy. Paid off in 1903, she then did harbour service until 1913 at Devonport, where she was used for training stokers and seamen. Sold in 1913 to a charitable institution that ran a training ship for boys based at Liverpool, she was renamed TS Indefatigable until repurchased by the Admiralty in 1941 and renamed Carrick II, whereupon she served as an accommodation hulk at Gourock throughout World War II. In 1946 she was sold to shipbreakers Thos. W. Ward in Preston and broken up in 1947.

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